Word: clawingly
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...kept a fingernail lead at the 100-meter turn. But the West German hit the last turn ahead. He held a lead through most of the closing 50 meters. Then Hayes, his arms seeming to revolve twice for every slow beat of Gross's great wings, began to claw it back. He was well behind at ten meters, still behind at five, not yet even at two. He hit the electric touchpad on the pool end-wall four-hundredths of a second ahead of Gross. Both men sagged in the water as the rest of the field finished. Then...
When it comes to buying, the Pentagon can be an easy mark, as demonstrated by the payment of $435 for an ordinary claw hammer that Navy auditors discovered last year. But it was revealed last week that the fleecing of defense is not limited to the buy side: the opportunity to make dubious deals also extends to the sale of military "surplus...
...cynical pessimism shows through every line of the script Each character in the play has a dream Lanx wants to be a boxer, Miss Scoons wants to be an actress. Tympani dreams of owning a diner And each has sold out, abandoned his integrity in order to try and claw his way to the top Money is the driving force in Angel City and any movie its inhabitants create is considered terrific as long as it sells...
...When we were written off [after the 0-2 start]" said Harvard Coach Joe Bernal, "we had to scratch, claw, bite and do just about everything. And that made it twice as sweet twice as rewarding to turn things around...
Their adventures are rough as they scratch and claw their way to the ranks of the in-crowd. Beresford lets on that this is only a phase the girls are experiencing, but he doesn't spare them any pain, as they deceive their parents, get suspended from school, and stagnate with their new friends...